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Iranian star Parastoo Ahmadi sentenced to 74 lashes for singing without hijab
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2026
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This is the regime all these Iran apologists on Lemmy are rooting for. There are no good guys in this war.
Shitty, aboslutely.
How many American school children have Iran bombed?
Dont try to give America a free pass by diluting the narrative.
Please cite the part where I gave America a free pass.
Please cite those Lemmy users rooting for women to be lashed for singing
Iran has long supported terrorist organizations that have killed many innocent people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terrorism
Nobody gets a free pass.
People are not rooting for Iran, but more like everyone knows attacking Iran is illegal and distraction from the Epstein file. This made Iran look like a less shitty looking shit.
It's "Turd" vs "Turd Sandwish of Turd on Turd"
Nobody wants to eat either whilst strictly speaking there is no denying that the former is less shit than the latter.
Who was rooting for the regime? Who?
I think people were rooting against the US/Israeli aggression, not particularly for the Irani regime.
Of course! Tell that to the guy I was replying to
Yeah but OP is similar to those who were against Israel bombing Gaza as being "anti-semetic". If you think Iran shouldn't be invaded by America Illegally, you clearly defend and support the Iranian regime.
Literally single context / single brain cell thinking. Not a complex thought in that head.
You definitely interpret people wanting the Iranian people to succeed vs the Iranian regime. Good on you for getting the nuance completely correct without a single ounce of error on your part. Terrific job.
I am 14 and this is deep
Good for you man
There will be protests and I’m hopeful she won’t actually face punishment.
You can totally be against a regime that tortures it's citizens, and still wish that same country doesn't have it's schools bombed by outside sources.
Obviously, that is what I want as well, as does every sane person on the planet. But those are not the ones I am talking about.
This is why I've emotionally divested myself from anything involving the middle east. No matter who you support you are supporting evil.
All I care about now is the economy specifically getting that strait opened back up. Right and wrong takes a back seat when nobody is right.
Reason cannot be on the side of those who act in contravention of international law.
I spent my formative years living in a pretty poor small town that is disaster prone where I woke up in my bedroom being flooded. The adults in the house love watching primetime news and thus at an early age I am exposed to politics and news about murders and so on. It's not that I don't care, I really do because my parents and having been raised Catholic taught me empathy, but the wars and killings (although I'm aware that the rate of homicide is gradually decreasing over the course of human history) has become non-news to me. So I have been made aware early in life that not everything is always roses. There are something's one cannot have control of but i participate in things I could change like with protests, even if it's little. But broadly speaking, I am desensitised of the news on the conflicts in Middle East or Africa. So when the market reacts, I'm like: "how are you guys not used to it?"